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Challenge: Stopped Motion II (Advanced Editing II)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Location: Santa Cruz, California
Date: Sep 17, 2004
Aperture: f 8.0
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/2500
Galleries: Nature, Action
Date Uploaded: Sep 18, 2004

 Crop. 50% levels & contrast. Lightened color in ocean. unsharp mask.

I stuck around Natural Bridges State Park in Santa Cruz for a couple of hours this afternoon (not a hardship) with the 500mm lens trained on a large rock populated with brown pelicans. Suddenly a whole squadron of them came in to land. This was the best of the lot for the purposes of the Challenge. I am lucky to have a couple of others that work well for other purposes.

I used the Sports Mode for this sequence - the camera made faster and better decisions in this situation than I could. (Although I'm not happy with the 400 ISO speed.)

Statistics
Place: 31 out of 170
Avg (all users): 6.1853
Avg (commenters): 8.0000
Avg (participants): 6.1071
Avg (non-participants): 6.2583
Views since voting: 1028
Views during voting: 387
Votes: 232
Comments: 21
Favorites: 0

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 03/21/2010 01:10:42 PM
Wow, he needs to get hold of those feathers!
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 03/21/2010 11:42:35 AM
I love him!! He's wonderful!
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 08/16/2008 04:56:34 PM
This is really something to look and wonder at for quite awhile. It seems to show that he is using every feather in fine tuning his approach - look on ye aeronautics engineers and despair! The asymmetry is a delight.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/26/2004 04:01:14 PM
Great decisive moment for the capture! I like the panoramic crop you selected as well.
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 09/26/2004 01:36:21 PM
Neat! I love the ragged look of this bird! What detail you've captured on a difficult subject!
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 09/25/2004 01:44:01 PM
Great catch, great detail on the feathers.
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 09/24/2004 11:18:41 AM
Nice DOF.Could use a bit of color punch. Good stop photo..
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 09/24/2004 10:56:20 AM
Something about these bird shots that are really hitting me -- great, great job! I've never seen this angle before!
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 09/22/2004 10:15:46 AM
Best of the bunch ... excellent shot ... 10
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 09/22/2004 07:46:22 AM
Very nice. Good moment and focus is perfect.
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 09/22/2004 12:31:38 AM
Good idea not using NeatImage. I like the rough texture of the bird and water.
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 09/21/2004 10:39:55 PM
"Left 45 degrees, down 5 feet, proceed visually and contact ground (water?) control on channel 1143" - or something like that. :-) That image is so cool. This duck looks like he's been through the mill though. Feathers rather worn here and there. All of which we wouldn't know except you stopped him cold - with great focus. Good capture. Congratulations and good luck with the challenge.
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 09/21/2004 03:31:04 PM
awesome
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 09/21/2004 12:59:42 PM
I have come back to this figure several times. It is a wonderful example of stopped motion. Yet, the image rises much higher in my estimation because there is something both ominous and exalting about it. It offers a mix of feelings. Anyway, this is an excellent capture with ample detail. Bumping up.
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 09/21/2004 09:26:20 AM
Great angle!
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 09/21/2004 07:08:18 AM
God work.
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 09/21/2004 04:58:47 AM
This image has a really quirky feel which works really well. The cropping is powerful also.
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 09/20/2004 10:07:00 PM
Big duck! Great photo. Like the color. Excellent croppoing.
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 09/20/2004 08:32:40 AM
Awesome!
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 09/20/2004 06:34:12 AM
It it was from the other side it would have been a 10. But still it goes very high in my voting
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 09/20/2004 02:55:47 AM
Very nice shot. You got a lot of great detail on the duck, but it looks like that resulted in a bit of noise in the background. You could try just sharpening the foreground on shots where the background is supposed to be out of focus. Still, this is a good photo that works great for this challenge.
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